I think the reason why was because when these were mainline equipment, the airlines actually thought of passengers as people and not cattle. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis W Zeuch" <DZTOPS@aol.com> To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 19:47 Subject: Re: [AIRLINE] Boeing 720 picture > Why was flying so much more fun as a passenger on these things? or a DC8? > The noise or the smoke or just the hell of it > Dennis >